Not in HDAS?

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen it defined as a rod with a loop of chain at the end used to make
> barrels, and as the chain used by loggers to lash logs together to be
> floated down river. Neither makes sense to me.
>

Well, barrels are composed of staves and there may well have been
black men who worked as coopers, till the coopers formed a union, at
least.

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